The National Institute for Communicable Diseases says 17,958 new Covid-19 cases have been identified in SA, representing a 25.6% positivity rate.

Searchers worked early on Sunday to find more than 150 missing residents amid the rubble of a Florida condo building that collapsed three days ago as questions arose about the tower's structural integrity.

Larina Manilall uses plastic crockery and utensils for her safety, battles to communicate with her husband and child, is unable to work and can’t watch TV or type a text.

KwaZulu-Natal police have recovered a hijacked vehicle transporting furniture worth R200,000.

The Hawks have arrested an Eastern Cape man for allegedly buying a car using fraudulent documents.

The Hawks have swooped on two suspects for dealing in rhino horns worth R2.4m.

SA's third wave of Covid-19 is on course to surpass the peak of the second wave after the arrival of a new variant of the infection, acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi said on Saturday.

The acting minister of health, Mmamoloko Kubayi, together with a panel of experts, will provide an update on SA’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic at 1pm on Saturday.

A motorist who admitted speeding has walked away unpunished after a magistrate failed to ask him if the “speed measuring device was functioning properly” when he was caught.

Acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi is to give a briefing about the surging third wave of Covid-19 after an emergency meeting of the national coronavirus command council on Saturday.

Two child and youth care workers at residential centres in the Western Cape have been fired for hitting boys in their care.

Each prisoner costs taxpayers R10,890 a month, says correctional services minister Ronald Lamola.

Police foiled a truck heist in Midrand, Gauteng, recovered firearms, cars and netted several suspects on Friday.

SA will on Monday join more than 100 UN member states at a high-level meeting on the commitment to eliminate sexual exploitation and abuse among peacekeeping personnel.

The Covid-19 lockdown halved the number of illegal immigrants SA deported.

Family and religious gatherings during Ramadan may have inadvertently acted as Covid-19 superspreader events in Muslim communities, some of SA's leading scientists and public health specialists have suggested.

An Eastern Cape secretary will spend the next 15 years behind bars for swindling the Road Accident Fund (RAF) of more than R11m.

A Cape Town businessman who collected R2.3m for unauthorised funeral policies will spend the next three years under correctional supervision.

A deadly cocktail of "taxi hunts", racial conflict and state capture threatens to wipe out SA's most endangered buck, the diminutive oribi, say farmers.

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A man who made 46 court appearances over seven years before being jailed for rape was freed on the spot by a judge who castigated prosecutors and magistrates for the delays.

A judge sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 22.5 years in prison on Friday for the murder of George Floyd during an arrest in May 2020.

Netcare said on Friday that it had increased hospital bed capacity, brought it more resident medical officers and tried to ensure it had enough supplies of oxygen and medication as Covid-19 cases continued to rise in Gauteng.

Two security guards have been fired for assaulting an elderly patient at a KwaZulu-Natal hospital, the provincial health department said on Friday.

Gauteng accounted for 63% of the country's 18,762 new infections, according to figures released by the NICD on Friday.

This week the efficacy study, which is led by the University of Washington, received a $122m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to test the effectiveness of a once-a-month oral pill to prevent HIV.

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The national senior certificate exams for matric pupils will start on November 1 and end on December 7, according to a circular signed by department of basic education acting deputy director-general Rufus Poliah.

Netcare Milpark Hospital has warned potential job seekers not to fall for scams on social media platforms such as WhatsApp, SMS or e-mail offering employment at the hospital.

'My Kitchen Rules SA' judges David Higgs and J’Something hosted a mass virtual cook-along in aid of charity — and made history in the process.